He turned quite grey under his dark skin and for a while trembled like a leaf, looking as though he were about to fall to the ground.

Then he leapt as a lion leaps, and seizing Umbezi by the throat, hurled him backwards, standing over him with raised spear.
"You dog!" he cried in a terrible voice.

"Tell me the truth or I will rip you up.

What have you done with Mameena ?" "Oh! Saduko," answered Umbezi in choking tones, "Mameena has chosen to get married.

It was no fault of mine; she would have her way." He got no farther, and had I not intervened by throwing my arms about Saduko and dragging him back, that moment would have been Umbezi's last, for Saduko was about to pin him to the earth with his spear.